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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand why my kid needs to take this laptop to and from school. He barely even gets any homework. I miss when they would have a math worksheet of homework and maybe something written. He carried this laptop to and from school daily last year and never used it at home besides to charge.

I didn’t see laptops out for my kindergarten child so I’m hoping/expecting that she won’t have to carry it. I remember my friend telling me that her tiny son had difficulty carrying his backpack with the laptop that was too heavy for him last year. She said he would tip over. The boy was the smallest in his class.[/quote]

Are you always this dramatic? Chromebooks are not heavy. Buy your kid a backpack and tell them to wear both straps. Done. No, you are not getting paper "worksheets."[/quote]

Actually, I have this problem too with my kids (small and skinny). Adding 4-5 lb laptop in their backpacks makes a lot of difference (at least the ones at our school are that heavy), so I will have to work with school to see whether they can make an exception when it comes to carrying laptops back and forth. I know that many kids are bigger and maybe don’t carry lunch boxes every day, but my kids do. Add to that water bottles, library book pick-up and return, the backpack weight can easily get close to or over 10 lbs. [/quote]

+1. Our school made us do this all last year and my child is small and a walker. She was told that the school didn’t have space to store them. I think she looked at hers twice at home during the year.  [/quote]

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